A performance of music and spoken word by artists Jenna Sutela and Soraya Lutangu (Bonaventure) explores microbiological and computational relationships, decentralized organisms and organizations, and being interconnected with the wider environment. The stories are set in a sonic landscape of yodeling, glossolalia, beats, and flutes.

The event is organized by facetime and Berlin Community Radio as part of a series that brings together artists from different fields who collaborate on a piece for the Roter Salon. Each performance will later be broadcasted as a radio play.

facetime is a series of live events organised by Elodie Evers in cooperation with different artists and initiatives from Berlin.

Berlin Community Radio (BCR) is an online broadcasting platform presenting everything that is coming from, passing through or influencing the creative scene in Berlin. It´s home to over 100 shows covering a variety of topics: arts, politics, digital culture and of course music across genres. Its aim is to bring together the continually evolving communities of the city and to establish a contemporary platform for cultural exchange.

Past Activities

On the eve of the release of their album, GODMOTHER will play the role of the house band of a talk show called The Late Joey Hansom, with special guest Olympia Bukkakis, the Empress of Despair.

The self-titled debut album by GODMOTHER arrives via New Pangea on the last official day of summer. Coming to terms with one's own mortality is a frequent theme in art: Godmother starts with this trope and takes it a step further, offering a tragicomic meditation on the annihilation of Homo Sapiens – and embracing its evolutionary successor. We're living in dark times, and Godmother reflects that – but the album offers a notable counterbalance with catchy melodies and a sense of humor. Its nine songs were written by Joey Hansom, deemed “the Gilbert & Sullivan of LGBTQ-with-a-capital-Q lyrics” by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle), upon having seen the clip for “MTFTM” from the Berlin-based act's previous Transgenre EP.

GODMOTHER has played in New York, London, Paris and of course Berlin, from performing arts festivals to basement sex clubs. Their music video for “MTFTM” was an official selection at the 2016 Porn Film Festival Berlin. Apart from GODMOTHER, singer-songwriter Joey Hansom has contributed music to films such as Fluidø, which premiered at the 2017 Berlinale, and the surrealist sitcom Charisma, which Volksbühne Berlin presented on their website in 2017-18. As a DJ, Joey is co-founder and resident of BOO HOO (named one of “Berlin’s Best Underground Club Nights” by i-D) and has provided support for Perfume Genius and SSION, in addition to co-hosting the Berlin spinoff of the Mattachine Dance Party with John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch).

Der Neugierige in Manhattan is a performance piece by Tobias Spichtig staged in collaboration with Theresa Patzschke. The work takes its name from Franz Schubert’s song Der Neugierige (The Inquisitive One) from the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin (1823) for a pianist and a solo singer.

Tobias Spichtig is an artist who currently lives and works in Berlin and Zürich. His performances, paintings and sculptures deal with the mythological aspects the everyday and fictional narratives of the present. His work has recently been shown and performed at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles among others.

Theresa Patzschke is an independent writer, musician and performer based in Berlin. She often worin collaboration with different artists. She has been in several performances by Anne Imhof, and is currently performing in a series of plays by Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff at Volksbühne in Berlin.

An experimental band project originally created at the bar in the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg, the SKY WALKING label quickly developed into a forum for exchange for previously uncategorisable, improvised and completely undiscovered music. As a platform it now connects a large number of artists from various fields including: Sollmann & Gürtler, Schluss, Eve Essex, Nika Son and Konrad Sprenger.

With their extremely dynamic, fragile and surprising improvisations, Schluss - aka Éric Falconnier and Joachim Schütz - break with musical conventions. Their debut album,28, has just been released on the SKY WALKING label. Joachim Schütz has worked in numerous collaborative formats with Ellen Fullman, Konrad Sprenger, Arnold Dreyblatt and Samara Lubelsky, among others. Éric Falconnier is part of a group called Gebrochene Beine.

Kyoto-born video artist and musician Aiko Okamoto - aka DJ Kohlrabi aka Mo Chan - is part of a network called female:pressure and co-founder of TOKONOMA, a Kassel based project space. One of her most recent projects took Okamoto to Kassel to participate in documenta 14 as a producer of Narrowcast House of Anton Kats to curate cultural radio programm. As part of SKY WALKING, she’s performing together with Pete Kersten - aka Lawrence - for this concert.

Especially for this performance, visual artist Verena Issel has designed a new spatial installation that transports musicians and spectators into a persiflage of a landscape of ancient ruins. Issel studied fine arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg and classical philology (Latin and Ancient Greek) at the Universität Hamburg, and now lives and works in Berlin. She primarily creates extensive installation works, which have been recently shown at Kunstverein Münster / LWL Museum Münster, TRAFO Kunsthall Oslo and Galerie Oechsner, Nuremberg.

facetime is a series of live events organised by Elodie Evers in cooperation with different artists and initiatives from Berlin.

Organized by the French artist Saâdane Afif and performed by the musicians Anas Maghrebi (Berlin) and Pierre Peres (Montpellier), this concert marks the conclusion of a series of exhibitions by Afif, dealing with questions of belonging and foreignness.

In 2014 the artist produced two identical sculptures representing replicas of a lamppost from Düren’s train station - including a signboard of the name of the city and miniature speakers that transmit live announcements from the station. By presenting them simultaneously in the Leopold-Hoesch Museum Düren and at the 8th Berlin Biennale under the titles « Ici. » (here) and « Là-bas. » (there) he explored the notion of being “here and “there”, being “from here” and “from there”.

In a next step Afif commissioned artists and friends like Federica Bueti & Jan Verwoert, Ryan Gander, Raimar Stange or Clara Meister among others, to write lyrics that interpret the works and presented the texts on the walls surrounding the installations.

In 2017, Afif reactivated these two parallel exhibitions in the Leopold-Hoesch Museum and in La Panacée in France. This time he gave the « Ici. » lyrics to a musician based in Germany (Anas Maghrebi) and the « Là-bas. » lyrics to a musician based in France (Pierre Peres), who both chose a few and composed them into songs.

A final evening staging a double concert by the musicians at Roter Salon - Volksbühne, will finally unify the here (Ici.) and the there (Là-bas.).

A first edition of this performance is organized by la Panacée at The Black Sheep in Montpellier on January 11th, 2018.

facetime is a series of live events organised by Elodie Evers in cooperation with different artists and initiatives from Berlin.

Saâdane Afif

Saâdane Afif (b. 1979, Vendôme, France) is a visual artist based in Berlin. Defined as “post-conceptual”, his work focuses on interpretation, exchange and circulation. He works in various media (installation, performance, text and printed matter). The methods he employs are not categorized under any specific discipline. All of his projects are subject to a continuous process of alteration. Recent international exhibitions include Ici., Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum, Düren, Germany and Là-Bas., La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2017), The Fountain Archives, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco and Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2017), Quoi? - L'Eternité, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, South Korea (2016), Vice de Forme: Das Kabarett, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2016), Das Ende der Welt, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany (2015), Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2015). His work was included in the Documenta 12 (2007) and in the 56th International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2015).

Anas Maghrebi

Anas Maghrebi is a musician/producer born in Nabek, Syria in 1989. He lived in Damascus before moving to Beirut early 2013 and is based in Berlin since 2015.

He founded the Syrian Indie band “Khebez Dawle” late 2012 in which he is involved as the lead singer and songwriter. He produced the band’s debut album and collaborated with many local acts in Syria & Lebanon, singing various styles (Sufi, Tarab, Rock Shaabi, electronica & others). He is currently working on his first solo album.

Pierre Peres

Pierre Peres is a French musician born in 1993, who has just graduated from the École des Beaux Arts in Montpellier. Inquisitive about the diverse forms of combination between art and music, he was formerly part of different bands in which he was involved as guitarist and singer. He is currently a member of the Montpellier based bands “L’Immobilier” and “Les Grys-Grys” and also runs his own solo project called “K.Blum”. He is part of dance and theater bands such as the National Center for Dramatic Art in Montreuil and Humain Trop Humain in Montpellier for which he works as a musician alongside Rodrigo Garcia and Juan Navarro.

You end up for an evening at the bar on the border of purgatory where the protagonists of jokes come to drink for partial eternity. Everyone is talking about the next place and how to get there. Can you find your way out before the last round at the end of time?

A performance of music and spoken word by Jesse Darling and Ziúr, organized by facetime and Berlin Community Radio as part of a series that brings together artists from different fields who collaborate on a piece for the Roter Salon. Each performance will later be broadcasted as a radio play.

Jesse Darling is an artist working in sculpture, text, installation, sound and drawing. Their work and research is broadly centered on technology and subjectivity from (post)-modernity to (post)-internet: The science and magic of meaning production.

Ziúr is a musician, creating in a spirit of freedom and experimentation, taking seemingly incompatible influences and balancing them into a sound, that is both advanced and precise. It's music which beckons you into an alternate world; wonderfully alien pop that eschews conventions.

facetime is a series of live events organised by Elodie Evers in cooperation with different artists and initiatives from Berlin.

Berlin Community Radio (BCR) is an online broadcasting platform presenting everything that is coming from, passing through or influencing the creative scene in Berlin. It´s home to over 100 shows covering a variety of topics: arts, politics, digital culture and of course music across genres. Its aim is to bring together the continually evolving communities of the city and to establish a contemporary platform for cultural exchange.